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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Think
Running
Thinking
Tell
Littles
Little
Yous
Everything
Diluted
Every
Although
Time
Gets
Love
Days

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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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